Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Present owners of the Harvard Square and Janus theaters, which have a capacity of 1,852 seats and 6 screens between them, did not return repeated phone calls...
...present, the civilian review board is absent one member who recently resigned, and lacks an executive secretary, a support staff and an investigating officer. During the last fiscal year, the council budgeted $66,240 a year for the board...
...earnestly romantic Louis Fyne is a memorable one, what he thinks about Byrne, and he will smile and say, "That man uses a different dictionary." Spalding Gray, the gifted monologist who appears as the civic leader of Virgil, notes that "David's a paradox. He's the most absent-present person I've ever met. He has two worlds going at the same time...
...present, SDI is a theoretical dream." Rusk is concerned that the Soviets may not realize just how theoretical SDI is, and that they are basing their bottom-line position on fears of a system that, he believes, could not exist within the next decade. "The Soviets are afraid of SDI because they agree with us that if the ABM treaty is abrogated, each side will have to multiply its offensive weapons to smother the other side's defensive systems. We must admit that we too would be uncomfortable about spaceships firing lasers, and particle beams circling over our heads. Still...
Subsequent experiments showed that the mysterious substance was also present in snake venom and mouse salivary glands. It was left to Cohen, a pipe-smoking individualist, to extract the first pure samples of the protein now known as nerve growth factor. Later, working separately, Cohen discovered epidermal growth factor, which governs cell development in the skin. He also located a protein on the surfaces of cells that acts as a receptor...